Drug-induced advances in neuroscience
Frank LeFever:
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>> First, a general observation: we have often seen (in this newsgroup)
>> people who know a little bit about something (often scattered and
>> poorly-understood terms and facts) assume that others know even less,
>> adolescent "big insights" proclaimed naively (to others who had and
>> worked through such "insights" long ago) as if it were a private
>> revelation, etc., etc.
Dag Stenberg:
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> First, it was nice to meet you at the Neuroscience meeting in L.A.
> One does not always meet the people in person that one has discussed
> with on the net, and we had a nice talk about real (Westie) science
> matters.
> It is certainly true that in my about 35 years in neuroscience
> I have never had as great revelations (subjectively) as when I
> as a young student misused the nitrous oxide (no, boys, not nitric
> oxide) supply in the lab to get revelations and insight. Oh, how
> I understood God and the world and felt myself like the Messiah
> whose task it would be to tell His truth to everybody around.
>(Bad metallic taste in the mouth afterwards, though!)
> Real life has been considerably different, although I nowaday
> appreciate the smaller pieces of understanding much more than the
> pseudohallucinatory insights of long ago..
As we now confess the {*filter*} we took decades ago, Mentifex admits:
- "De Anima" and other works of Aristotle in the original Greek;
- "Der Wille zur Macht" and other opiates of Friedrich Nietzsche;
- "The Cerebellum as a Neuronal Machine" injected by J.C. Eccles.
No {*filter*} sativa or papavera somnifera. Lo, the hallucination:
/!i!i!i!i!i!\ ________ /iiiiiiiiiii\
/visual memory\ / \ / auditory \
| | / syntax \--------------|------------\ |
| | \ node / ______ | memory | |
| | \________/----/ \ | channel | |
| | | /function\ | | |
| /--------|--------\ | \ cable / | | |
| | | | | \______/ | ____ | |
| | | _V__V_ | | / \ | |
| __|__ | / \ | | /stored\ | |
| /image\ | /logico- \---------|------|--\ stem / | |
| /percept\----|----/conceptual\ | | \____/ | |
| \_______/ | \ cable / _____V__ | | | |
| | \________/ / \---|-----'____ | |
| | /inflection\ | /in- \ | |
| | \ cable /--|----/flec- \| |
| | \________/ | \tion / |
| | | \____/ |
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